Band 5/6 Midwives

Hours: Full Time (37 1/2 hours) and Part Time hours available

Community and/or hospital placements available

Are you a Midwife who would like to develop your knowledge, skills and competency by practicing within our excellent Maternity Unit in the Wye Valley?

We would like to hear from both newly qualified Midwives and those with previous experience. All successful candidates we have a comprehensive preceptorship programme which involves supported orientation in all clinical areas and includes working with our clinic and community teams.

We support women in their birth choices for home birth, or birth in the Obstetric Unit. Diverse experience can be gained in holistic midwifery-led care for low risk women and babies in addition those requiring more complex and shared care. The posts will be rotational and ongoing rotations will include practice in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, community and new continuity teams.

There will be opportunities for driven and skilled midwives to be part of our new Continuity of Carer teams that are in development who provide full continuity of care to a cohort of women in line with the local and national service developments reflecting the recommendations outlined in the 'Better Births' National Maternity review.

Salary & Banding will depend upon experience.

Main duties of the job

With the support of a specific preceptor and senior midwives, assess the care needs of women and babies, and implement and evaluate programmers of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Work autonomously within sphere of practice.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about the role and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Competent to undertake Newborn Physical Examinations

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of current midwifery issues
• Ability to communicate with staff from all levels and from different professional groups
• Demonstrates a positive approach to change

Experience

Essential

• Experience as a midwife / reflective of student progress leading to autonomous practice
• Competent to deliver evidence based practice
• Ability, with appropriate orientation to work in all maternity settings

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

County Hospital

Union Walk

Hereford

HR1 2ER

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